“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― State of Fear
― State of Fear
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
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